Mini revolution

摘要

Hackintoshing a Dell Mini 9 netbook has been a real education. I... Hmm. Yes, that opening sentence requires explanation.rn"Hacktinoshing": using special techniques, utilities, and bootloaders to make the Mac OS run on non-Apple hardware. "Dell Mini 9 netbook": A low-powered notebook computer with very few system resources, designed to run Windows XP. It's small enough to fit in the back pocket of those trousers I own that have big back pockets, and costs about $300. "A real education": several hours of frustration, followed by 20 minutes of inspired guesswork, followed by success. I've been using this machine for three weeks now and the experience of using the same software I've been relying on for a decade on a machine not made by Apple has been slightly revolutionary.